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Dodgy eBay purchases

purplebogmonste

Regular Member
Hi,

I bought a 'new' HDD of eBay. I had my doubts to be honest but gave it a try. Using CrystalDiskInfo I see it has been started 620 times and has 1300 hours of use on it. Why do people on eBay try and pull these stunts? Surely they know that they will need to refund the buyer including postage and will get bad feedback. Maybe they just expect buyers to be gullible - and maybe I was? Will fork out full price for one from a mainstream store me thinks. Rant over.

C.

EDIT: I did check the drive that it is to replace which has about 1300 days on it rather than the 55 of the eBay drive. It has not completely failed yet but has SMART errors and is on the way out. Still there are 4 such drives in my NAS and only one is going bad - that is quite respectable for 7200RPM desktop drives I think. They are Seagate and I never really liked Seagate but I can't complain about these.
 
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EVERY Seagate drive I have had has failed within a few years, and the one that failed inside the warranty, they failed to replace.

They are a bit like Talk Talk, buy up better rivals in the hope the shine will attach, when all that happens is their crud sticks to the previously decent make.

I have had WD, Hitachi, and a few other (now defunct) brands that have kept working for over a decade, and got thrown away because the capacity was too small; SERIOUSLY, I only threw away some 1.2GB drives in 2015; I had a real purge, and threw away anything smaller than 40GB, and this year ditched a few 80GB drives.
 
As a general rule I take anything marked as "New" on eBay, rather than "Used", with the biggest pinch of salt possible. I've brought a few "New" items that had clearly been used before, knocked around a bit or refurbished.

The problem is that such disputes can be tedious and the seller may complain that any damage was caused by the buyer or delivery. A lot of people who sell used items as "New" still have top quality ratings from other eBayers.

However I never buy computer stuff or Smartphones over eBay as the quality is usually questionable.
 
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indeed, electronics in my experience is always a gamble so l never pay more than a set amount depending on the hardware.
 
The only new electronics thing I've ever bought on ebay was a Huawei B683 3G gateway, purchased as a cheap back-up in case my Cellroute 3G (discontinued a whileback) ever bites the dust. Fired it up to check it was OK, no problem, works fine.
Admittedly it has a foreign telecoms company logo on it and the instructions are all in Arabic, but it's a pretty straightforward device so I didn't need instructions - which I could probably have found in English somewhere on the web anyway. It might be refurbished rather than genuinely new, I can't tell, but for less than fifty quid I'm not grumbling.
 
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